Guidelines and information for the Round Table List
The mailing list (known as Round Table List) is provided as a service to facilitate communication and the exchange of information about print disabilities. Messages emailed to Round Table List will be automatically forwarded to every other member who is on the list.
- Guidelines for sending a message to the list
- Setting auto responders
- Avoiding attachments
- Bounced messages - possible causes
- Excluding Round Table List from your email address book
- Unsubscribing and changing your details
- Where to get help
- Subscribing to the list
Guidelines for sending a message to the list
The Round Table List email address is provided in your welcome message (its not provided here to prevent abuse by spammers).
There are a few important things to note when posting a message to the list:
- Messages need to be sent from the same email address you provided when you subscribed (otherwise they will bounce as a non-member subscription)
- Use plain text only - formatted messages and/or email signatures sent in styled or html markup are not understood by the listserve software (this includes messages with images or scripts in them)
- Please do not use attachments
- Round Table List should be the only recipient
- Keep messages brief and to the point (very long messages are likely to bounce)
- It also helps to add your reply comments near the top of the message, and only quote essential parts of previous messages - this way there are less quote markings for others to wade through
- Include your personal contact details in the message or signature of your email, so that members can reply to you directly if appropriate
The mailing list automatically dispatches your message to each subscriber on Round Table List and appends the tag [Round Table List] to the subject line of messages for easy identification.
Setting auto responders
If you use auto responders on your email program when you take leave, please make sure you exclude responses to any mail with the Round Table List email in any header. If you cannot do this within your email software, then please unsubscribe from the Round Table List until you return.
Another solution is to ensure that the auto-responder only works for messages sent 'To' yourself and not to messages that are sent using 'Cc' or 'Bcc'. This will work for all list servers as the message is always sent 'Bcc'.
Avoiding attachments
To help avoid the circulation of viruses, the Round Table List does not allow attachments. It is preferable to:
- Provide a short message with a web site link or contact email for further information, or
- Include the information in the body of the email (provided it is not too long)
This approach allows people who are interested in more detail on a specific topic to follow it up individually, while:
- Limiting the possibility of circulating viruses
- Minimising problems for people experiencing slow connections
- Providing members with a choice (rather than forcing everyone on the list to download the file, whether interested or not)
- Ensuring that the content of messages are accessible to all members (eg some attachments, such as PDF files, may not be accessible to screen readers)
Bounced messages - possible causes
The most common cause of bounced messages is sending the message from a non-member email account. This might happen if you post from a different computer of if your email address has changed.
Sometimes certain words will cause a post to bounce, such as including "help", "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject line or body of the message. These words are reserved for admin requests and for security reasons such messages are sent to the list owner rather than the list. Try changing the word/s to another word that will convey the same or similar meaning and resend your message.
The listserve software will also not send very long messages. If your message has bounced because it has exceeded the size limit please consider summarising the content.
Other possible causes for a bounced message are attachments, multiple recipients, or formatted content (eg HTML).
Excluding Round Table List from your email address book
Some viruses proliferate by sending a copy of the virus to every other address in your email address book. To help avoid this problem, list members are asked not to include the Round Table List email in their address book.
Unsubscribing and changing your details
You can do this by email or via your personal subscription page on the Round Table web site. Email instructions and a link to your subscription page is provided in the welcome message you received when you joined the list.
Where to get help
For assistance with problems accessing or using Round Table list, please contact Sandra Vassallo at e-bility, who is the administrator for this list.
Subscribing to the list
To join the Round Table List simply complete and submit the list subscription form using the subscribe button below. Once you have done this an email notice will be sent (to the email address you provided) with a unique subscription request number. You need to reply to this email in order to subscribe.
After you have subscribed, you will receive a welcome message from the list.
- Please keep the welcome message somewhere safe as it has all the information you need to manage your list subscription and send messages to the list
- The list is also restricted to one email address per person (you can change this email address at any time via your subscriber preferences panel)